Reviewer:
JackHuang
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April 28, 2013
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Interesting film. 2010 reviewer is dead-wrong.
Not a bad film, though better picture quality would've been nice. Having been made in 1944, it's an American perspective on modern China that's refreshingly devoid of McCarthyist bigotry.
The reviewer below complaining about the film's use of the PRC national anthem (in the intro) simply knows nothing about the history of the song.
The song was originally written during the Sino-Japanese War as a morale-boosting battle cry in the fight against the invading Japanese. The PRC later borrowed it and made it their national anthem, much like how "The Star-Spangled Banner" was a US Navy song before it became the national anthem.
The film's use of the song is perfectly (and I mean perfectly) appropriate.